The Living Landscape is written by Laura McCreery and was published by Wilderness Press in Berkeley, CA in 2010. It is a first edition. Ms. McCreery is a noted writer and interviewer specializing in California politics and government. It is a new, hard cover (flexible covers) book with an illustrated dust jacket. It contains 194 pages and is well illustrated with color and B&W photos and tables. It measures 10" x 10" and weighs 2 pounds.

In the depths of the Great Depression, voters across the Bay from San Francisco in Alameda County, California, approved a new tax to establish the first regional park district in the U.S. Farsighted civic leaders sought to create an agency that would retain a balance of recreation opportunities and wilderness features - ideas unheard of at the time.

The resulting East Bay Regional Park District has become the largest, most innovative of its kind. The District's unwavering focus and sophisticated methods have allowed it to preserve more than 100,000 acres of public parklands in 65 parks throughout the East Bay counties of Alameda and Contra Costa.

Set against the coming of age of the environmental movement, the book reveals how the pivotal events in the District's history have unfolded, through the eyes and words of people behind the scenes. Living Landscape informs and surprises readers interested in the environment, California history, politics, law, or simply a good story.